JJ21

ringing in the ear supplement from one manufacture

Supplement Facts
Serving Size: 3 Caplets
Servings Per Container: 33

Amount per Serving % Daily Value


Vitamin C (As Ascorbic Acid) 300 mg 500%

Thiamin (B1) (Thiamine Mononitrate) 1 mg 67%

Riboflavin (B2) 3 mg 177%

Niacin (B3) 10 mg 50%

Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine HCI) 1 mg 50%

Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 5 mcg 83%

Pantothenic acid (As Calcium Pantothenate) 5 mg 50%

Calcium (As Dicalcium Phosphate) 87 mg 9%


Choline (as Choline Bitartrate) 334 mg*

Bioflavonoid Complex (as Lemon Bioflavonoids Complex with Eriodictyol Glycoside) 600 mg*

Inositol 334 mg*

* Daily Value not established.

GivemeVSP

Does anyone know if claiming tinnitus on my VA disability jeopardize my FAA 1st class medical in any way?

WhistlePig

How would an AME know about the claim, or your tinnitus? There's no test for tinnitus so you would have to disclose it. Even then, except in very very rare cases, the doctor can't hear it. If you can pass your hearing test, I don't see the issue. Is it disqualifying by itself? I don't think so. IIRC, I told the flight surgeon about mine and he suggested minimizing salt and caffeine. It's in my STR's

Wollac

No. There really is no official first class medical hearing test. By that, I mean, they don't put you in a booth and test your hearing. As long as you can understand and answer all the doctor's questions as he is talking to you in the exam room, you've passed the hearing test. At least that has been my experience.

Blue Skys

I had tinnitus when I was on the line at UA. I was sent to an Otolaryngologist and he said that nothing I do will make it go away. Believe what you want, I'm just telling you what he told me. He also told me that it may have been caused by some drug I may have been taking, even aspirin may cause it. It's actually getting worse. The doctor told me that some people have to be sent to a psychiatrist because in some cases some people have been known to start to go nuts with it. (He didn't use those exact words, so I paraphrased it.) After 30 years of flying, I retired, but I still hear, "Heading one-eight-zero and contact the tower." That's worse than the tinnitus. Wait until you retire. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and try to remember what hotel I am in.

NotPart91

Not only does exposure to high dB noise levels damage your hearing but High Frequency Harmonics, such as are generated by a UH-60 and other Aircraft will cause hearing loss.

Here's a new electronic hearing aid designed specifically to help tinnitus.

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undflyboy06

I started hearing a "whooshing" sound around a month ago. Sometimes it is in both ears, or just one. Our Excel doesn't have a APU, and we flew another one that does around a month ago. Like a dummy, I didn't have hearing protection when I did my walk around.

After doing a lot of research, I think I have Pulsatile Tinnitus; the whooshing is in rhythm to my pulse. I can only hear the whooshing during low ambient noise conditions; sleeping or in a quiet room. It is also worse if I sit or lay down compared to standing. It is definitely annoying when you can hear your pulse.

I am in the process of seeing an ENT. Unfortunately, the prescribed medications he gave me didn't work. He was hoping if my Eustachian Tube was inflamed, the medications would help with the inflammation.

I am freaking out a little because this form of Tinnitus is usually formed by increase pressure in your arteries in your neck or near your ear which makes the flow of blood more turbulent. Nothing good causes that, but I have not been diagnosed with anything yet.

I just wanted to share my story with everyone, and that there are other forms of Tinnitus that are just as elusive as the ringing. My battle continues.....

JohnBurke

My ears ring all the time. I get crickets chirping, alternating loud and quiet volume, pulsing, rushing of air, always something. The worst times are then the ambient noise is silent. I keep a television on at night.

I find it's usually a bit worse after using a nose reduction headset. For long trips, I like the bose QC15 with the uflymic. It makes trips for comfortable, especially with a little music piped in, but the ringing is worse after the trips. The headset always has a bit of white noise, however, and that helps alleviate the ringing a little. It gets drowned out somewhat with slipstream and engine sounds, etc.

There's no cure for tinnitus. You won't get rid of it with vitamins or with hearing aids. If you've got it, you've got it.

Temporary symptoms will sometimes occur after exposure to a loud noise, trauma, a ruptured ear drum, lack of sleep, etc.

Your best bet is to avoid hearing loss and associated problems in the first place. Once its gone, its gone.

Blue Skys

Went back to the ENT yesterday and asked him about using this OTC medicine that is being advertised on TV for Tinnitus and he told me to save my money. I had the MRI done to make sure that I didn't have any tumors, so he thinks that it started when I was taking quinine in Vietnam for malaria. The OTC medicine is called Lipo-Flavonoid.

I have tried almost all of the suggestions posted here and nothing seems to help, but I did notice a little when I was taking magnesium.

DustyRoads

A couple of suggestions.

For $75 or so and ENT clinic can make a custom pair of ear plugs which have a very high DB reduction. In the neighborhood of 30db reduction.

There are several ipad applications that create white noise for sleeping.